Isogo: a minimalist shrine to clean coal
Modern cities are ever more hungry for power, but increasingly prefer to keep their power plants out of sight and out of mind. Whilst the…
Fossil Fuels
The incompatibility of HELE coal technology with 2°C scenarios
In December 2015, international governments pledged in Paris to limit global average temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts…
Impact of New Pipeline Infrastructure Tied to Firm Capacity Contract Debates
On May 2, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a favorable environmental assessment for the Atlantic Bridge natural gas pipeline project, proposed by…
MIT researchers convert waste gas into liquid fuel
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a form of bioconversion that could be used to convert waste gases to biodiesel for…
European banks clinging to coal investments
Europe’s big banks have failed to significantly cut their investments in coal in the five years between the UN climate conferences of Copenhagen and Paris….
South Africa’s Road to Growth is Paved With Coal
South Africa is already largely urbanized. Today, nearly two-thirds of South Africans live in urban centers. Although the rate of urbanization is slower in South…
We Shell Overcome, Someday
Late this September announced it was shlving its Arctic oil and gas operations off the coast of Alaska – for now. The Arctic is so…
Refracking is the new fracking
The technique itself is nothing new. Oil crews across the world have been schooled on its simple principles for generations: Identify aging, low-output wells and…
More coal plants are being cancelled than built
The global coal boom has started to slow, a new report says, as more plans for new power plants are now being shelved than completed….
Bringing the age of steam into the information age
‘Greetings from the Stone Age’ proclaimed the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung upon the opening of a brand new coal power plant near Hamburg this year,…
Fossil Fuels (emissions) here to stay
Gone are the days of the fossil fuels golden age but we are still in a period of abundance. New supplies added to the world…
Coal industry stands for progress and prosperity
Outlawing coal, as EU policymakers seem intent on doing, would be a divisive and backwards step for humanity, writes Brian Ricketts. Brian Ricketts is the…
Coal gasification: Could it lift the industry out of the ‘coaldrums’?
It has been no secret that the seaborne coal market has been in steady decline, amid a deep imbalance between supply and demand which has…
Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables
An earlier version of this story represented the IEA’s scenario for solar in 2050 as a forecast when it was in fact one of several…
7 Questions For Energy Entrepreneur Felipe Gomez
At the White House earlier this week, President Obama announced new efforts to support emerging entrepreneurs who develop solutions to some of the world’s toughest…
The World’s Most Efficient Coal-Fired Power Plants
International efforts to mitigate climate impacts have intensely scrutinized carbon emissions from the electricity sector. Coal, in particular, has been targeted as a source of…